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hedges, which their larvae have half stripped of their leaves. 

 Our other white Liparidce. are larger and less common. 



TPIE BROWN-TAIL MOTH. EUPROCTIS CHRYSORRHCEA. 



Boinbyx chrysorrhoea^ Linn. Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), i. p. 502, no. 28 

 (1758); id. Faun. Suec. p. 299 (1761); Hiibner, Eur. 

 Schmett. iii. figs. 67, 248, 249 (1800?); Godart, Lepid. 

 France, iv. p. 273, pi. 27, fig. 3 (1822). 



Bombyx auriflua^ Esper, Schmett. iii. p. 23*-, Taf. 39, fig. 6 



(1785). 



Bofnbyx phcBorrhcea^ Donovan, Brit. Ins. x. pi. 555 (1801). 

 Liparis chrysorrhaa^ Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iii. p. 202 



(1810). 

 Porthesia aurijltia^ Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 66 



(1828). 



The Brown-Tail Moth. 



Porthesia chrysorrhcea, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, 



p. I II, pi. 25, fig. 4(1879); Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid. 



iii. pi. 40, fig. I (1889) ; Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl. ii. p. 



292, pi. 78, fig. 2, 2a-c (1894). 

 Euproctis chrysorrhoea, Kirby, Cat. Lepid. Heter. i. p. 442 



(1892). 



The Brown-Tail Moth is found throughout Europe, North 



Africa, and Asia Minor. It expands from \y^ to ij^ inch. 



It is white, sometimes with a dark spot near the hinder angle of 



the fore-wings in the male. The abdomen ends in a tuft of 



o 2 



